Robert South Quotes

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
Robert South

Rather, Defeat, Fresh

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
Robert South

Great, Reason, Abstinence

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
Robert South

Anger, Hatred, Transient

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.
Robert South

Religion, God, Men

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
Robert South

Mind, Begins, Substances

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
Robert South

Paradise, Adam, Rubbish

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.
Robert South

Men, While, Desires

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
Robert South

God, Mind, Father

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.
Robert South

Greatest, Himself, Half

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
Robert South

Work, Far, Greater

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
Robert South

Against, Needs, Temptation

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.
Robert South

Heart, Takes, Storms

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
Robert South

Great, Parent, Pleasure

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
Robert South

Together, Become, Problems

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
Robert South

Nothing, Argument, Prove

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
Robert South

Men, Wise, Mind

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
Robert South

Men, Wisdom, Famous

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Clergyman

Born: 1634

Died: 1716

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